Sentences with phrase «what spiritual people»

(Pretty much what spiritual people try to avoid... get it now?

Not exact matches

«What once was a retail center where people bought things is now a spiritual center where the most important thing in life is offered free,» says senior pastor Jay Dennis.

Though what you say, may stereotype some actual people in the «church» today, I think most people attend out of love for their God and spiritual nourishment.

As to the argument that since Jewish people do not believe in baptism — thus what difference does it make... Yes — we don't believe in it's effectiveness as a spiritual rite, but we know that it is NOT meaningless.

They are talking about love — something that all people feel no matter what their spiritual beliefs are.

I think it is obvious that the social aspects of the church experience are what draws this unfortunate person — not the spiritual.

There is no hell... people make their own hell... God is Love and God loves all his children equally and would never condemn any of them to people's perception of hell... none of God's spiritual energy is ever lost and we are made from It... if you think otherwise, that is what you will find when you cross over, until you WAKE UP!

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

Perhaps the best way to understand what spiritual autobiographies do is to contrast them with recent first - person autobiographical narratives.

To be honest, it's more than a little scary when the people who are supposed to be spiritual role models for the next generation are seemingly lost in a sea of self - righteous, politicized sin that seems to be so far removed from what Jesus represented.

You know NOTHING of my spiritual condition or journey yet you believe YOU and YOU ALONE know what is wrong with me and obviously EVERY other person who dares challenge your views.

When I asked the 21 - year - old student leader of the trip what was the chief motivation behind him and his fellow undergraduates making the journey, he replied that it was primarily a spiritual motivation: «Because it is an overwhelming experience to be united with so many other young people in praying together and witnessing to the joy of being pro-life.

I had what people refer to as night terrors my entire life, but in reality, I fought (and still do fight) spiritual face to face battles with dark forces in my dreams.

But very often this constant awareness of spiritual climates enables us to also recognising the Lord's heart for a particular / person / situation and partner with Him in what He chooses to do through us, perhaps through prayer, releasing of scripture, laying hands, etc., in order to release His purpose and power.

What many people do not know is how much spiritual support Archbishop Romero received from Opus Dei.

We have not been going to a building regularly for some time now and I have seen how people have questioned our «spiritual well - being» because of what they see on the outside, looking for our «badge».

I believed that if only I had what other people had, my spiritual and emotional hunger would be quelled.

I don't think what he does is harming anyone and if it helps some people lead a more spiritual life then so much the better.

I was prickly about people's demands on «my time,» especially when they interrupted silence or prayer, and I was bugged by what seemed to be widespread spiritual sloppiness in folks who considered themselves religious.

Anytime, there was an idea for what we could do, one of the pastors or leaders was quick to volunteer various people based on their «spiritual gifts» and to market the newest gimmick.

First, «there must be an irrefutable standard that all agree upon» obviously not all people, or even all people inside or outside the church would agree on what is and is not spiritual abuse or whether or not it is tolerable or not.

When I read of people protecting (saving) persons who believed differently than themselves, then I think we should check out what is going on in the spiritual lives of such saints.

Do you know what I also get from number four... a very condescending attitude that all the people who attend church are stupid and that Harpur type intellects are going to lead us to a spiritual truth that will be otherwise hidden from us.

Who that person is and what he or she may think about religion are thus weighty questions, not just for science and the academy, but also for communities of belief, and indeed, the entire moral and spiritual fabric of our culture.

In the meantime, they live in a sort of self - imposed spiritual isolation — never telling people what they really believe about various things, because those are the things they are going to write about in their book, and they are deathly afraid that anyone they share their beliefs with will take them and write their own book about them before they can get THEIR book finished.

What people seem to be hoping is that the children, whose lives were so cruelly cut short, can enjoy peace in a spiritual realm, where we can one day join them and be reunited.

What causes people who may otherwise feel like they're spiritually healthy to become broken and disconnected from that spiritual health they once had?

My seminary president's «wrong person / wrong place» motto was not what I expected to hear from a spiritual leader and seminary president.

But then, the most experienced spiritual director often can not tell what the people he counsels really believe, and many of us are sometimes uncertain about what we ourselves really believe.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

But I think there's another side to what a lot of people really mean when they say, «I'm spiritual but not religious.»

So it might work for YOU to say that religious people are insincerely spiritual people (which I think is what you're saying — am I correct?)

«These are the truths we all know and have known since childhood catechism,» he says in effect, «but see what it means really to believe them; see what sort of person they should be fashioning us into, and fashioning us into from the inside; see what spiritual reality we should be expressing in our inner person and living out in our daily lives.»

You don't know what that person is feeling about God in that moment, and imposing your beliefs, even if it's just quoting scripture, can cause anger, confusion and long - term spiritual baggage.

Statesmen are of varying degrees of moral and spiritual discernment, but none can move far beyond what the people will support.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

It seems like the people in the pews have the power to define what is Christlike, and their spiritual leaders are only supposed to talk in vague platitudes — or address sins that everyone can agree on like abortion or pornography.

A hardhearted person is self - centered, impervious to spiritual things, resistant or closed off to God and what God wants to do in that person's life.

Israel committed spiritual adultery time and time again when God warned the people of what was going to happen for their sin.

CT has previously discussed how it's possible to be both spiritual and religious, the importance of loving the church, and what unchurched people think of Christians.

By attacking the notion that at the heart of the human person is a spiritual centre - what St. Thomas would call the «spiritual substance» and what John Paul II would call «self - possession» - postmodernist thought betrays the essence of humanity.

How do you know what a person who is spiritual but not religious believes?

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

Another part of why many people are spiritual but not religious is that although they believe in a power greater than themselves, they are actually comfortable not knowing exactly what that power is.

Make it easy for people to get involved in various ways of spiritual transformation, and make it ways for them to just rest in what they have learned.

However there are people who are polytheists who do willingly study and practice different world religions to get a deeper understanding of what is SPIRITUAL.

When we are told that «communism and Christianity are in actual fact two competing systems offering to reconstruct China... they are two antithetic and contrasted systems, either of which will affect the whole political, social and spiritual life of the people,» the question at once arises: What are the Christian correlates to the communist economic system and social practice?

Most people who say they are spiritual actually do nothing that is itself spiritual, it is an easy way to get out of answering the difficult question of what do I believe.

The article begs the question of people who identify as «spiritual but not religious»: «What do you REALLY believe?

This «spiritual buffet», where people pick and choose what fits for them, is about as far from the real truth as you can get.